Check-perforator.



No. 709,775. Patented Sept, 23,1902.

M. KEANE. CHECK PEBFORATOB.

(Applicatiqn filed Apr. 24, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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MAXWELL KEANE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO EUGENE E. MENDELS, OF NEW ARK, NEXV JERSEY.

CHECK PERFORATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 709,775, dated September 23, 1902.

Application filed April 24, 1902. Serial Nil-104,485. (No model.)

T at 2117110712, it natty concern:

Be it known that I, MAXWELL KEANE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, county and State of New York, have invented certain new-and useful Improvements in Check-Perforators,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a check-perforator by means of which numerals and other fig- IO ures may be readily punched into the body of the check, so as to protect it against raising.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a face view of my improved check-perforator. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on line 2 2,

I5 Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on line 3 3, Fig. 1, showing the lid lowered; and Fig. 4, a similar section with the lid raised.

The letter n. represents a base-plate made of metal or other material and provided on its face with struck-up bearings a forthe pivot Z) of a hinged comb-shaped lid 0. This lid is provided with a series of fingers c, separated by intervening slots, all fingers being of the same width with the exception of the last finger 0 which is of increased width. The fingers c are provided with perforations 0 arranged to represent consecutive numerals and other marks to be punched upon a check. Beneath each finger the base-plate a is provided with teeth or protuberances a which are arranged in alinement with the perforations, so that when the lid is lowered upon the base-plate each tooth is received by a perforation. The perforations of the last finger 0 form a field to cover and protect a number written or stamped upon a check.

Between each pair of fingers 0 there is formed upon the plate a a shoulder or abutment a which gages the distance to which the check may be introduced, so that uniformity may be attained. These shoulders are formed in alinement with the slots between the fingers and are set back to such a distance that the check may be freely inserted underneath the 5 entire length of afinger. The several shoulders are not continuous, but spaced, and extend only between, but not underneath, the fingers, where the plate a is smooth. Thus the fingers a may fold flush upon the baseplate 01,, Fig. 3, from end to end and any bending of the lid while punching the check is avoided.

In use the lid 0 is raised and the check is placed upon plate Cb against abutment a Bynow loweringthelid and pressing upon the proper finger c the number desired is punched out. The check is now moved to the next finger, and thus any numeral or sequence may be readily stamped thereon.

The lid 0 is made of sheet metal or similar yielding material, so that when the finger desired is depressed at its free end such pressure will not be transmitted to the other fingels, and consequently the desired character only will be punched into the paper.

The lugs or abutments a not only form stops for the checks in inserting the same, but also form guides and stops for the lid, insuring the registration of the teeth a with the perforations c in the operation of the device. To this end the lugs a operate between the fingers of the lid and are abutted by the front edge of the body of the lid in perforating the check, and the lid being flexible and springy is prevented by said abutment from being drawn so far forward as to throw the pins and perforations out of registration.

What I claim is- 1. In a check-perforator, the combination of a base-plate having spaced abutments and intermediate teeth, with a hinged lid having a series of perforated fingers which are adapted to fold-flush upon the base-plate intermediate the abutments, the latter being in advance of the hinge of the lid, substantially as specified.

2. A check-perforator comprising the base having spaced abutments and the lid hinged to the base in rear of said abutments and having fingers operating between said abutments and its body portion arranged to be stopped by said abutments in using the device said abutments being adapted to form stops for both the check and the lid substano 5 tially as and for the-purposes set forth.

Signed by me at New York city, New York, this 19th day of April, 1902.

MAXWELL KEANE.

Witnesses:

F. v. BRIESEN, EDWARD RAY. 

